Microsoft Online Services Group
Southeast Asia today announced teaming up with local partners to launch MSN services in
Vietnamese early 2008. National broadcaster VTV will provide general
news sources while Laodong
Newspapers in charge of business and finance news. Initial plan is
to launc
h the portal in second quarter of 2007 but delayed till 2008 for
some reasons. The collaboration made me think of old media giants partnership against Google's YouTube.
After three months, only MySpace in the alliance moved with M
ySpaceTV, a pure play battle. Since Yahoo Vietnam had started local services
with strong base of messenger and Yahoo360 users, how MSN Vietnam get a
piece of the pie.